Abstract
The growth of a cultivated typical brain tumor is studied in this work. The tumor is analyzed both dynamically and morphologically. We have measured its fractal dimension to be . From its dynamical behavior we determine the scaling critical exponents of this circular symmetry system which are compatible with the linear molecular beam epitaxy universality class. A very important feature of tumor profiles is that they are super-rough, which constitutes the first ( )-dimensional experiment in literature with super-roughness. The results obtained from the dynamics study make manifest two very surprising features of tumor growth: Its dynamics is mainly due to contour cells and the tendency of an interface cell to duplicate is a function of the local curvature.
- Received 22 May 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4008
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